Mouclade

This curried mussels dish can be used as a backdrop to some prime specimen like turbot or bass. Just grill the fish and lay it on top of the mouclade. It’s rather fine just as it is though and an interesting change from moules marinières where the mussels are cooked in much the same way but without the spicing. Mussels have a full and distinctive flavour that can stand up to most treatments and win. At Carriers restaurant in the seventies we used them often, sometimes poached then coated wi